Qiu Tu: I Swear I Want to Sleep with You

Hearing La Riluo's words, Qiu Tu was genuinely startled.

Pierce through the barrier between two worlds and defeat Yan Chen's Law Projection from another world?

He could not help but marvel, "A Fifth-Order Evil God is actually this powerful?"

Seeing Qiu Tu's utterly inexperienced look, the corners of La Riluo's lips lifted slightly, revealing an evil smile.

Paired with her exquisitely carved face and scarlet eyes that carried an eerie beauty, she was like a shadowy cluster of flames—evil yet eye-catching.

She lightly brushed a finger over her high nose bridge, then said smugly, "That is why Yan Chen thought he had plotted against me, when in fact, he had fallen into our trap."

Qiu Tu nodded at that, then praised her fawningly, "Your Highness truly plans ahead."

"Looks like I worried for nothing."

After saying that, Qiu Tu probed, "Then does Your Highness have anything you need me to do next?"

Qiu Tu thought for a moment, then added, "Yan Chen is trapped by you now. He will not be able to break free anytime soon."

"The Investigation Department is already under my control. I can do many things for you."

As he said this, Qiu Tu kept his eyes fixed tightly on La Riluo.

He clearly saw a flicker of surprise pass through La Riluo's eyes.

Apparently, Qiu Tu's efficiency in taking control of the Investigation Department in less than half a day had still startled La Riluo somewhat.

After all, had La Riluo not spent so long laying out her plans just to control the Investigation Department and then spread her faith and pathway throughout New Realm City?

Yet something she had failed to accomplish after planning for so many years had been completed by Qiu Tu in less than half a day. It was only natural that she felt surprised and astonished.

However, that unusual expression vanished in an instant, and La Riluo returned to normal.

She gave Qiu Tu a deep look, then asked, "Qiu Tu. Do you truly wish to worship me?"

Qiu Tu grinned shamelessly. "Not really."

La Riluo: ??

Qiu Tu said with a beaming smile, "I simply crave your body."

"I have only had one hobby since I was little: lust. I truly want to taste what an evil god is like."

La Riluo:

Seeing that Qiu Tu did not seem to be faking it, La Riluo narrowed her eyes and looked at him dangerously. Then she asked in a sweet voice, "Qiu Tu~ You are not deliberately provoking me, are you?"

Qiu Tu hurriedly waved his hands.

Then, with a solemn expression, he swore, "Your Highness! I swear to Heaven that if I truly do not harbor evil intentions toward you, may lightning strike me dead, may I be hit by a car the moment I step outside, and may I choke to death on water when I drink!"

Hearing Qiu Tu swear so earnestly, La Riluo felt slightly reassured. My ass!

If she had actually been standing before Qiu Tu right now, she would probably have wanted to strangle him to death!

What kind of oath was that?!

Was he guaranteeing that he harbored evil intentions toward her?

Would that not make the oath even more infuriating if it came true?!

Thinking that, La Riluo's chest rose and fell violently several times in anger.

Still, she maintained the dignity of an evil god. Her eyelids lowered as her fingers lightly wound around the lace on her clothes, giving her an air of casual elegance.

After a moment, she raised her head, flashed Qiu Tu a seductive smile, and said, "I have learned of your wish."

"It is not impossible to fulfill it."

"But I need you to do something for me."

Hearing La Riluo's words, Qiu Tu immediately patted his chest and promised, "Your Highness! As long as you agree to let me become your lover, forget one thing—even if it is ten things, I am willing to do them all for you!"

Hearing Qiu Tu's words, La Riluo covered her mouth and let out two sweet laughs. "All right, then do ten things for me."

Qiu Tu:

Perhaps sensing Qiu Tu's speechlessness, La Riluo laughed even more happily.

She extended her slender jade finger and said, "The first thing is that I want to develop several more believers within the Investigation Department."

"I need you to carefully select these believers for me and see who can be used and who cannot~~"

Qiu Tu agreed without the slightest hesitation. "Do not worry, Your Highness. I will definitely complete the task!"

La Riluo smiled even more happily at that. "The second thing is... I need to know the exact time Moonlight Lake will take shape."

"This Moonlight Lake is fated to be connected to me. As long as I can obtain it, I will have hope of advancing to the Fifth Order."

Hearing La Riluo's words, Qiu Tu asked in astonishment, "A Fifth-Order Evil God like Your Highness Zhao Ji, who can break open the world barrier with a single strike?"

La Riluo gave a sly smile. "Yes."

Qiu Tu immediately promised, "Your Highness, do not worry. I guarantee I will complete the task!"

La Riluo nodded and continued, "The third thing..."

And so, La Riluo really did list all ten tasks one by one.

These tasks ranged from developing believers and gathering intelligence to dealing with the female slaves La Riluo had trained. In the end, there was even helping La Riluo massage her feet.

Especially that last foot massage—Qiu Tu could not tell for a moment whether La Riluo was assigning him a task or rewarding him.

Still, regardless of what it was, since La Riluo had brought it up, Qiu Tu took out paper and pen and recorded everything in detail.

Seeing how serious Qiu Tu was, La Riluo's face also showed a rare trace of satisfaction.

At the end of the call, she nodded to Qiu Tu and habitually painted him a rosy picture. "Qiu Tu~ Do not worry. As long as you work well for me and help me spread my faith, I will not treat you poorly."

"Did you not previously want to become my pope and remain by my side?"

"No problem~~ I agree."

Hearing that, Qiu Tu immediately looked at La Riluo with delighted surprise and said excitedly, "Thank you, Your Highness!"

"I guarantee I will complete the tasks!"

La Riluo nodded with reserved dignity, then said, "Since that is the case, you may withdraw."

"Once you have completed the tasks I assigned, you may contact me again."

Qiu Tu nodded seriously. "Please rest assured, Your Highness. I will complete them as soon as possible."

La Riluo nodded in satisfaction.

The next second, her body exploded and transformed into a cloud of white vapor.

A moment later, the vapor gathered and contracted, finally turning back into that ancient coin.

Then, with a clank, it fell onto the table, spun around several times, and finally slowly toppled over.

As the communication ended and the coin fell, the room became exceptionally quiet for a time.

At that moment, Qiu Tu did not move at all.

He simply stared silently at the ancient coin. After a moment, he suddenly gave a soft laugh.

The next second, without even looking at the coin, he took out his communicator and entered several numbers.

The person on the other end had clearly been waiting for Qiu Tu's call. The instant Qiu Tu called, it was answered immediately.

At the same time, a familiar woman's voice came through the receiver. "How was it? What was the result?"

Hearing the woman's voice, Qiu Tu walked out of the room and chuckled. "I have more or less gotten to the bottom of it."

"She really did fall into Yan Chen's trap. Not only is her soul unable to leave that body, but she is also being restrained by the God-Slaying Tool Yan Chen prepared long ago."

Hearing Qiu Tu's words, Qin Shuman laughed. "It seems our evil god has truly suffered a setback this time."

Qiu Tu gave a soft "Mm," then could not help recalling the entire process of his conversation with La Riluo.

La Riluo actually did have some real ability. Even after being plotted against by Yan Chen, even while trapped in dire straits, she had not panicked. Instead, she was still trying every possible way to escape.

And she had actually already told Qiu Tu how she intended to escape. It was this:

Borrow the power of another great evil god, Zhao Ji, to forcibly defeat Yan Chen's Law Projection, cause Yan Chen's advancement to fail and suffer backlash, thereby exposing an opening for her escape.

As for what she had told Qiu Tu about Yan Chen and herself plotting against one another, most of it was true as well. Or rather, nine parts truth and one part falsehood.

The only false part was probably that La Riluo had discovered Yan Chen's trap and made preparations in advance.

As for the rest, Qiu Tu guessed that La Riluo had most likely deduced it afterward from everything that had happened over the past few years after falling into the trap.

But why was Qiu Tu so certain that La Riluo had truly fallen for it, rather than turning Yan Chen's scheme against him and setting a trap of her own, as she claimed?

It was actually very simple.

La Riluo thought she had acted perfectly normally, but she had overdone it.

Think back over the entire process of La Riluo's previous interactions with Qiu Tu—this Evil God Girl was proud, seductive, and cunning.

Across Qiu Tu's three encounters and three rounds of probing with her, although they had each won and lost at times, one thing about La Riluo had remained consistent: she kept her mouth shut tight! (Chapters 155, 184, 204)

Qiu Tu was exceptionally skilled at controlling the pace of a conversation and extracting information, yet he had never gotten even a scrap of useful intelligence from La Riluo.

The only useful information he had ever gotten was false—La Riluo had said Jia Shu was her believer.

So when Qiu Tu realized that today's La Riluo did not even need prompting and had poured out every piece of information like beans from a jar, he immediately became certain that she was lying.

She was using her words to guide him, feeding Qiu Tu information she wanted him to know or believe.

And among all the information La Riluo had revealed today, the only thing worth going to such lengths to deceive Qiu Tu over was the fact that she had fallen into a trap.

Qiu Tu guessed that La Riluo had most likely noticed some abnormalities and realized something was not right, but because Yan Chen had already kept her close under his control, she had no time at all to escape or call for help.

Furthermore, Yan Chen and Qiu Tu had eliminated all of La Riluo's core believers during this time, leaving La Riluo with no one she could contact.

That was also why La Riluo had continued this conversation even though she might have known she was overdoing it—Qiu Tu was likely her last lifeline.

So even knowing that she might be exposed, she might not have been able to hold on much longer. She had to gamble.

And naturally, she lost that gamble.

Thinking that, Qiu Tu took out the list of ten tasks La Riluo had told him to complete.

Most of these ten tasks were merely meant to distract attention. Only one of them seemed somewhat suspicious.

"At the East Gate of New Realm City, light three sticks of incense and softly recite 'My Lord La Riluo' three times."

According to La Riluo, this represented Qiu Tu's allegiance to her, marking them as one of their own from then on.

But honestly, Qiu Tu had never seen a Believer Mark done this way. Therefore, he guessed it was most likely some sort of distress signal.

The East Gate was in the direction of East City, while the incense was likely some special signal. As for "My Lord La Riluo," that hardly needed explaining—it was obviously meant to tell Zhao Ji who was calling for help.

It was precisely through these two details that Qiu Tu became certain La Riluo was not as composed and in control as she claimed. On the contrary, she was trapped in a desperate situation!

He explained his analysis to Qin Shuman from beginning to end.

After thinking it over briefly, Qin Shuman agreed with Qiu Tu's assessment.

She said, "La Riluo truly should have no core believers left who can save her. So she clung to you like a drowning person clutching at a straw, preparing to stake everything on one desperate gamble."

After saying that, Qin Shuman asked, "Then what do you plan to do?"

As Qiu Tu walked to the window at the end of the corridor, he smiled and said, "Very simple. One word: stall!"

"Since she wants to keep pretending, I will play along."

"Anyway, I originally wanted her to delay Yan Chen."

"Now, I do not even need to brainwash her. As long as I give her a little hope, it will be enough to keep her going."

After saying that, Qiu Tu added, "Judging by the condition La Riluo was in when I spoke with her, she should be fine for at least another two or three days. She can still jump around lively."

Hearing Qiu Tu's words, Qin Shuman could not help laughing. Then she teased, "You... are you not afraid she truly has some trump card and will just flip the table?"

Hearing that, Qiu Tu smiled unconcernedly. "Flip the table? Would that not be perfect?"

"Then Yan Chen will definitely suffer backlash, right?"

Qiu Tu said, "I only figured this out today."

"Before, I thought they were both my enemies. No matter who won, I would be in trouble afterward."

"But now, I see it differently. I think no matter who wins, I will have one less enemy."

"I only need to eliminate the other one."

"That cuts my workload in half!"

Hearing Qiu Tu's optimistic words, Qin Shuman laughed and joked, "You really are worthy of being La Riluo's believer. You have learned her optimism."

Standing by the corridor window, Qiu Tu gazed at the still-radiant giant tree projection in the sky and sighed. "There is no choice. If I were not a little optimistic, I would have been crushed long ago."

"We have advanced step by step and waded through so many dangers. It has not been easy~~"

Qin Shuman smiled as well. "Yes. So we really should be a little more optimistic."

And just as Qiu Tu stood there gazing at the nightscape and chatting with Qin Shuman...

Suddenly, a deafening BOOM! exploded beside Qiu Tu's ears!

In that instant, Qiu Tu's ears rang furiously, as though countless bees were beating their wings beside them, producing a piercing buzz!

Before he could react, frantic barking of "Woof! Woof woof!" came from downstairs!

The huge noise had clearly frightened Shen Ling Shuang, who had been asleep.

Wearing the bear pajamas Qiu Tu had specially bought for her that afternoon and hugging a doll half her height, Shen Ling Shuang ran out of the bedroom with terror written across her face!

At the same time, Qin Shuman heard the explosion over the phone and anxiously asked, "What was that sound?! Qiu Tu! Are you all right over there? What happened?"

Qiu Tu had also recovered from the roar of the bomb exploding at close range.

He looked down through the shattered wall.

Then he saw that outside the pitch-black villa, an unknown number of people in black were hiding.

Among them, directly in front of him, was a black-clad man carrying a Rocket Launcher on his shoulder, aiming at him and preparing to fire a second rocket.

Seeing that, Qiu Tu first glanced at the rapidly flashing countdown for United Front's Revenge in the upper-left corner of his vision, then calmly said to Qin Shuman, "It is fine. It should be the Alliance's retaliation."

"They brought heavy weapons."

"They are bombarding my villa."